5 Creating the St. Lawrence Seaway: Mobility and a Modern Megaproject

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgements xiii
5. Moving Natures in Canadian History: An Introduction 1
6. Production, Pathways, and Supply
7. Maitland’s Moment: Turning Nova Scotia’s Forests into Ships for the Global Commodity Trade in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 27
8. Forest, Stream and . . . Snowstorms? Seasonality, Nature, and Mobility on the Intercolonial Railway, 1876–1914 55
9. Supply Networks in the Age of Steamboat Navigation: Lakeside Mobility in Muskoka, Ontario, 1880–1930 79
10. Seasonality and Mobility in Northern Saskatchewan, 1890–1950 103
11. Creating the St. Lawrence Seaway: Mobility and a Modern Megaproject 127
12. Soils and Subways: Excavating Environments during the Building of Rapid Transit in Toronto, 1944–1968 151
13. The Windsor-Detroit Borderland: The Making of a Key North American Environment of Mobility 175
14. Consumption, Landscape, and Leisure
15. Views from the Deck: Union Steamship Cruises on Canada’s Pacific Coast, 1889–1958 203
16. Producing and Consuming Spaces of Sport and Leisure: The Encampments and Regattas of the American Canoe Association, 1880–1903 229
17. What Was Driving Golf? Mobility, Nature, and the Making of Canadian Leisure Landscapes, 1870–1930 251
18. Rails, Trails, Roads, and Lodgings: Networks of Mobility and the Touristic Development of the “Canadian Pacific Rockies,” 1885–1930 275
19. Automobile Tourism in Quebec and Ontario: Development, Promotion, and Representations, 1920–1945 299
20. Contributors 323
21. Index 327